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HASAN GÖğÜş, Deputy Undersecretary for European and EU Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Turkey;
EDMOND PANARITI, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Albania;
PHILIP T. REEKER, Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State;
DR. ENVER HOXHAJ, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Kosovo;
ZLATKO LAGUMDŽIJA, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bosnia and Herzegovina;
DR. JÁNOS MARTONYI, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Hungary;
DR. GUIDO WESTERWELLE, Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany;
PROF. DR. VESNA PUSIć, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Republic of Croatia;
NEBOJŠA KALUđEROVIć, Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Montenegro;
NIKOLA POPOSKI, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Macedonia;
ZORAN VUJIć, Assistant Minister for Security Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Serbia
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Dear Friend of the Aspen Institute Germany,
The mission of the institute is to improve the quality of
leadership through dialog about the values and ideals essential to meeting the challenges facing organizations
and governments at all levels. How does Aspen go about
this? By convening three types of events:
Leadership programs – Aspen’s core lies in its leadership development programs, epitomized by The Aspen
Seminar. The Aspen Seminar examines what it means to
contribute, as a leader in any form of organization, to the
establishment and maintenance of the “good society.”
Aspen attempts to create a neutral, protected space in
which leaders of all political colors can come to seek answers to this question via a respectful exchange of sometimes diametrically opposed points of view. The Aspen
Seminar deals with issues such as human nature, natural
law, freedom, property and productivity and equality and
social welfare. In its other Leadership Programs, Aspen
Germany turns this idea into action by, for example, convening leaders from Afghanistan and the Balkans in an
attempt to find practical solutions by which to resolve
two of the most intractable leadership challenges facing
the transatlantic community.
policy programs – The “Aspen Idea” that is represented by this neutral, tous azimuts approach is taken one
step further by tackling intractable policy challenges.
Over the course of the last two years, this has involved
convening international decision makers, practitioners
and experts to seek answers to the challenges posed by
the changing geostrategic landscape—whether it be
changes to the security architecture of Northeast Asia occasioned by the North Korean nuclear program, changes
to the Greater Middle East caused by the Iranian nuclear
program, the “Arab Spring” and the faltering peace
process, the challenges posed by the impending withdrawal of the international community from Afghanistan
or the continuing need to create a Europe whole and free.
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public programs – Finally, in order to reach a broader
audience, Aspen Germany convenes a public program of
events. The unifying theme of these presentations and
discussions is: how can we leverage our community of
values to tackle some of the toughest challenges that we
as a community of democracies face? Friends of the
Aspen Institute and guests meet in small groups that permit an open discussion. In order to reach a broader audience, part of these discussions is broadcast nationwide
in Germany thanks to the institute’s partnership with
Deutschlandradio Kultur.
In this manner, Aspen Germany takes the dedication that
Aspen Institutes in eight countries worldwide bring to
the advancement of values-based leadership and applies
it to the concrete challenges that Germany and the United
States face as partners in a transatlantic community of
values.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of those
who have cooperated with or supported Aspen Germany
financially over the course of seven years. Should Aspen
Germany’s mission and the activities undertaken in its
pursuit appeal to you and appear worthy of support, new
sponsors and members of the Friends of the Aspen Institute are always welcome. Both the members of the Management Board of the Friends of the Aspen Institute
listed on page thirty-nine and I stand ready to answer any
questions.
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Best regards
Charles King Mallory IV
Executive Director
The Aspen Institute Deutschland e.V.
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Southeast Europe Foreign Ministers’ Conference V
Aspen Seminar Germany V
Aspen Seminar Germany IV
Aspen Seminar Germany III
Afghanistan 2014: Opportunities & Challenges
Southeast Europe Foreign Ministers’ Conference IV
Aspen Seminar Germany II
Aspen Seminar Germany I
pOLICY pROGRAMs
The Greater Middle East & the Transatlantic Community
A Future Security Architecture for Southeast Europe: Bilateral Security Roles
A Future Security Architecture for Southeast Europe: The Future Roles of NATO and the EU
A Future Security Architecture for Southeast Europe: Framing the Issues
Aspen DPRK-USA Dialogue II
Sustainable Strategies for Afghanistan and the Region After 2014
The Euro-Atlantic Integration of the Western Balkans 2010-2015
A Stable Security Architecture for the Western Balkans
Aspen DPRK-USA Dialogue I
pUBLIC pROGRAM
Dr. Guido Westerwelle & Dr. János Martonyi Panel Discussion
Dr. Susan Hennersdorf
President’s Night
Dr. Guido Westerwelle in Conversation with Dr. Rafael Seligmann
Dr. Klaus-Peter Müller
Dr. Jim Thomson
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Prof. Giulio Tremonti
Evans Revere
Najmuddin Shaykh
Eckart von Klaeden
Danny Ayalon
Klaus Schäfer
Ulrich Sahm
Shaul Mofaz
René Obermann
Jean Pisani-Ferry
Dr. Robert von Rimscha & Dr. Ulrich Schlie
François Heisbourg
János Martonyi
John Fund
Yoram Ben-Zeev
Adam Posen
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MIssIOn
THe MIssIOn OF THe Aspen InsTITUTe Is
TO IMpROVe THe QUALITY OF LeADeRsHIp
THROUGH DIALOG ABOUT THe VALUes AnD
IDeALs essenTIAL TO MeeTInG THe
CHALLenGes FACInG ORGAnIZATIOns AnD
GOVeRnMenTs AT ALL LeVeLs.
What do you have from the fact that over 36,000 participants* from business, politics, diplomacy and culture
have come together at the Aspen Institute Germany in the
course of the last 35 years?
* Including 32 Foreign Ministers, 26 U.S. Governors and German State
Premiers, 7 Heads of State, 19 Ministers and 7 members of the U.S.
Senate
The world is safer
The world is more transparent
The Aspen Institute brings business, science, politics,
diplomacy and culture together—globally, intellectually,
inter-culturally.
Top leaders in different regions of the world founded
eight independent, but closely cooperating, Aspen
Institutes in order to advance universal values and valuesbased leadership.
Over 550 leaders from business, science, politics,
diplomacy culture and non-governmental organizations
support Aspen’s activities in over fifty different countries.
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On August 28, 1949, two thousand guests celebrated
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s birthday in Aspen
Colorado. One year later, the German immigrant Walter
Paepcke founded the original Aspen Institute
A U.S. entrepreneur and German immigrant Walter
Paepcke (1896-1960) founded The Aspen Institute in
1950 in Aspen, Colorado, after he had been inspired by
Mortimer Adler’s seminar on the classics of philosophy
at the University of Chicago.
Paepcke had visited the collapsing mining town of Aspen
in Colorado’s Roaring Fork valley in 1945. Inspired by
its natural beauty, Paepcke became convinced that Aspen
could be converted into a place where leaders could meet
in retreat from their daily toil.
To realize this vision, in 1949 Paepcke organized a celebration of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 200th birthday
in Aspen, Colorado. Over two thousand guests took part.
Amongst others, Albert Schweitzer, Jose Ortega y
Gasset, Thornton Wilder and Arthur Rubinstein attended.
Paepcke founded The Aspen Institute one year later.
Paepcke wanted to create a forum at which “the human
spirit could blossom” amidst the storms of modernization. He hoped that the institute would help leaders
reorient themselves towards eternal truths and ethical
values in the daily management of their business.
Inspired by Mortimer Adler’s seminar on the classic
works of philosophy, Paepcke founded the Aspen
Executive Seminar. In the 1960s and 1970s the institute
broadened its program with many new activities.
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Twenty-four years later, German Federal Chancellor
Willy Brandt, Die Zeit publisher Countess Marion
Dönhoff, German Federal President Richard von
Weizsäcker and Shepard Stone founded the Aspen
Institute Germany.
In 1974, German Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt, Die
Zeit publisher Countess Marion Dönhoff, German
Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker and Shepard
Stone founded the Aspen Institute Germany—as the first
Aspen Institute outside of the United States.
Under Stone’s leadership (1974-1988), the institute made
a significant contribution to achieving mutual understanding between the East and West blocs during the
Cold War. Aspen was one of the few places where highranking East bloc and West bloc representatives were
willing to meet in a neutral, respectful and confidential
atmosphere in order to look for solutions to the East-West
conflict together.
Under Stone’s successors, the institute dedicated itself to
the search for solutions to the Yugoslav conflict and other
foreign and security policy issues. The Aspen Institute
Germany organizes public events, and conferences and
seminars with the goal of reconciliation, promoting
peace, preventing conflict and advancing mutual understanding in the Near- and Middle East, Southeast Europe,
the Commonwealth of Independent States and Northeast
Asia.
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Three programs that regularly publish
academic reports form the core of Aspen’s
current work.
Aspen Leadership program
Leadership seminars | On the basis of Eastern and
Western classic and modern texts, participants deliberate
together on the proper structure and role of leadership in
the “good society.” They thereby gain knowledge and
insight, new perspectives and a greater ability to conquer
complex challenges.
The Aspen seminar
For over sixty years, the Aspen institutes have been
organizing multi-day retreats for top leaders in order to
advance values-based leadership.
Content and Organization
Leaders from Germany and the United States meet for a
number of days in a Socratic dialogue and intensively
discuss philosophical texts from Occident and Orient.
The goal is to develop and apply the principles necessary
for the construction of a “good society” in a manner relevant for international partnership in mastering a number
of critical future international challenges such as:
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The modern welfare state
Migration
Integration of minorities
Climate change
Participants prepare for the seminar via intensive reading
of excerpts from relevant texts and deal with the following topics in the process:
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Human Nature
Natural Law
Freedom
Property and Productivity
Equality and Social Welfare
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Meetings of Foreign Ministers
Aspen convenes an international meeting of foreign ministers once a year. In December 2007-2012 high-ranking
German and U.S. representatives and top politicians and
officials met with Foreign Ministers from Southeast
Europe at closed-door conferences. In 2010, German
Federal Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westerwelle and his
Austrian counterpart Dr. Michael Spindelegger opened
the conference. In 2012, Dr. Westerwelle and his Hungarian counterpart Dr. János Martonyi assumed patronage of the conference.
The Topics:
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Regional cooperation
NATO and EU integration
Economic development and energy security
A stable security architecture for Southeast Europe
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Aspen policy program
Programs to address current, complex, policy challenges
faced by society. Conferences and seminars on complicated political and social developments: these are
analyzed together in confidence and viable solutions are
developed. The institute mediates between conflict
parties with the aim of using a holistic approach to
defuse or solve the most difficult challenges arising in
international relations.
Aspen european strategy Forum
Aspen DpRK-UsA Dialogue
A strategy forum for top international and transatlantic
leaders from business, science, politics, diplomacy and
culture, convened to discuss strategic challenges openly
and in depth behind closed doors.
An unofficial, confidential, Track II meeting of senior
government officials from the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea and former senior policy makers and
North Korea experts from the United States of America
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The Goals:
Kickoff presentations by international experts
Feedback and dialogue with policy makers
Search for an international consensus
Development and publication of constructive
suggestions that can be implemented, are relevant
and are of practical value to policy makers
• Exploring the envelope of possible solutions
to the North Korean nuclear crisis
• Making a contribution towards productive
DPRK-U.S. contacts in official channels
The Topics:
The Topics:
• 2008 — International State Building and
Reconstruction Efforts: Experience Gained and
Lessons Learned
• 2009 — Russia and the West: How to Restart a
Constructive Relationship
• 2010 — The Strategic Implications of the Iranian
Nuclear Program
• 2011 — Sustainable Strategies for Afghanistan and
the Region beyond 2014
• 2012 — The Greater Middle East and the Transatlantic Community
• Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula
• Conventional Armaments Reductions
• International Economic Cooperation with the
DPRK
• Normalization of DPRK-USA relations
• Concluding a peace treaty by which to end
the Korean War
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Aspen southeast europe program
strengthening near-eastern Civil society
Aspen’s Southeast Europe program convenes subcabinet
level decision makers and experts from politics,
diplomacy, military, civil society and academia from the
USA, Germany, Southeast Europe, Russia, Turkey, and
Euroatlantic organizations to discuss strategic challenges
openly and in depth behind closed doors.
A series of twenty convenings conducted between 2006
and 2009 designed to build networks and capacity in key
sectors of civil society in the Islamic Republic of Iran,
the Syrian Arab Republic and Lebanon.
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Kickoff presentations by international experts
Feedback and dialogue with policy makers
Search for an international consensus
Development and publication of constructive
suggestions that can be implemented, are
relevant and are of practical value to policy
makers
The Topics:
• A Future Security Architecture for
Southeast Europe
• The Future Roles of NATO and the EU
• Bilateral Security Roles in Southeast Europe
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Aspen public program
Public presentations by and discussions with high-profile
speakers. A platform at which differing opinions can be
exchanged and debated and new ideas can be introduced.
A selection of speakers from 2009-2012:
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Dr. Josef Ackermann, Deutsche Bank AG
Dr. Manfred Bischoff, Daimler AG
Dr. Klaus-Peter Müller, Commerzbank AG
Dr. Bernd Reutersberg, E.ON Ruhrgas AG
Dr. Dr. Hans-Werner Sinn, ifo-Institut für
Wirtschaftsforschung
Dr. Guido Westerwelle, Bundesminister des
Auswärtigen
Roland Koch, Ministerpräsident Hessen
Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, Bundesminister des Innern
Thomas de Maizière, Bundesminister im Bundeskanzleramt
Brigitte Zypries, Bundesministerin der Justiz a.D.
Prof. Dr. Volker Perthes, Stiftung Wissenschaft und
Politik
Dr. Thilo Sarrazin
Paul S. Atkins, U.S. Securities & Exchange
Commission
C. Boyden Gray, U.S. Ambassador to the European
Union
Elliot Abrams, Deputy U.S. National Security
Advisor
Lt. Gen (ret.) Ricardo S. Sanchez, Coalition Joint
Task Force 7
Prof. Dr. John L. Esposito, Georgetown University
Dr. Kevin Hasett, American Enterprise Institute
Prof. Dr. Bruce Hoffman, Georgetown University
• Evans Revere, Former Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary, U.S. Department of State
• Giulio Tremonti, Former Economic and Finance
Minister of the Republic of Italy
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Aspen publications 2009-2012
Esch, Valeska / Kabus, Juliane / Mallory, Charles (eds.)
A Future Security Architecture for Southeast Europe
(Aspen Institute Germany: Berlin 2012)
Available at → www.aspeninstitute.de
Krause, Joachim | Mallory, Charles, (eds.), The Greater
Middle East and the Transatlantic Community (Aspen
Institute Germany: Berlin, 2012)
Available at → www.aspeninstitute.de
Krause, Joachim / Mallory, Charles, (eds.), Sustainable
Strategies for Afghanistan and the Region After 2014,
(Routledge: London, 2013)
Available at → www.amazon.com
Krause, Joachim | Mallory, Charles, (eds.), The Strategic
Implications of the Iranian Nuclear Program (Routledge: London, 2011)
Available at → www.amazon.com
Krause, Joachim | Mallory, Charles, (eds.), International
State Building and Reconstruction Efforts: Experience
Gained and Lessons Learned (Barbara Budrich: Farmington Hills MI, 2010)
Available at www.amazon.com
Böhnke, Olaf | Azimi, Amin | Spanta, Frangis Dadfar |
Zillich, Helena | Morton, Allison | Reynolds, Justin |
Gottwald, Ramona | Schreer, Benjamin | Mallory,
Charles, Iran: Supporting Democratic Reformers (Aspen
Institute Germany: Berlin, 2010)
Available at → www.aspeninstitute.de
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Krause, Joachim | Kuchins, Andrew | Rahr, Alexander |
Schreer, Benjamin | Mallory, Charles, Russia and the
West: How to Restart a Constructive Relationship
(Aspen Institute Germany: Berlin, 2009)
Available at → www.aspeninstitute.de
Over five hundred additional academic reports published
by the Aspen Institute Germany can be obtained at
→ www.aspeninstitute.de
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The Friends of the Aspen Institute exists
so that the Aspen Institute Germany can
continue to work independently in the future
as well
Representatives of German business, science, politics,
diplomacy and culture founded the Friends of the Aspen
Institute (Verein der Freunde des Aspen Institut e.V.) in
1989 in order to support the mission and goals of the
institute.
The institute’s work can be supported via a tax deductible
membership contribution to the Friends of the Aspen
Institute, as a Corporate, Private or Junior member. The
revenues generated in this manner cover the core operating costs of the Aspen Institute Germany. This financial
support permits the institute’s staff the freedom to
execute the institute’s mission.
Benefits of Membership in the Friends of the
Aspen Institute
Aspen offers members of the Friends of the Aspen
Institute:
• Exclusive access to recognized national and international experts and select, top decision makers
• Participation in confidential conferences, seminars,
roundtables and lectures that deal with the most important current challenges and issues
• Detailed, non-partisan analysis of important political,
economic and cultural challenges
• Insight into the latest political and economic developments and their impact on your work — well before they become known to a broader public
• Access to an international network of decision makers in eight different countries
• Additional information from books, conference reports and events
• As a corporate member in the Friends of the Aspen
Institute (Verein der Freunde des Aspen Instituts e.V)
you support Aspen’s many activities, receive access
to our international network, as well as invitations to
conferences, seminars and public events. In addition,
you receive copies of Aspen’s publications free of
charge
Would you like to know more?
You are more than welcome to attend one of the next
Aspen Public Program events:
→ freunde@aspeninstitute.de
Two Aspen Germany Public Program Guests
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Trustees and private Individuals
Foundations and enterprises
Carl Douglas
Sue & Martin Koffel
Helmut Meier
Urs Schwerzmann
Abeln Fachanwälte für Arbeitsrecht
Adam Opel AG
Airbus AG
Aspen Institute Italia
Axel Springer AG
Bayerische Motorenwerke AG
boesner GmbH, holding + innovations
Boston Consulting Group
BP Europe SE
Capricornus Investment GmbH
Catenion GmbH
CNC-Communications+Network Consulting AG
Daimler AG
Deutsche Bank AG
Dussmann Gruppe
EADS Deutschland GmbH
Ericsson AB
Ernst & Young GmbH
ESBATech GmbH
FOKUS Magazin Verlag GmbH
FOKUS Online
FPS Rechtsanwälte und Notare
Freiberger Lebensmittel GmbH & Co.
Fritz 101 Restauration
Gesellschaft für Sicherheitspolitik
GÖRG-Rechtsanwälte
Infineon Technologies North America Corp.
Kelly Financial Resources
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
KPMG Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft AG
Ksd advisory GmbH
Lichtensteinische Landesbank AG
MBDA Systems Deutschland GmbH
natGAS AG
Odewald Network Communication GmbH
Paradigm Capital AG
Pfizer Deutschland GmbH
public Institutions
German Federal Foreign Office
German Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology
Parlamentariergruppe Bosnien und Herzegowina
Deutsch-Südosteuropäische Parlamentariergruppe
Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
Bayerische Staatskanzlei
U.S. Department of State
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Foreign
Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Embassy of the United States of America to the Federal
Republic of Germany
Embassy of the State of Israel to the Federal Republic
of Germany
Embassy of the United Kingdom the Federal Republic
of Germany
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Albania
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kosovo
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of
Macedonia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro
Embassy of the Republic of Austria to the Federal
Republic of Germany
Embassy of the Republic of Hungary to the Federal
Republic of Germany
Deutschlandradio Kultur
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Result Group GmbH
Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
Robert Bosch GmbH
Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH
Shepard-Stone-Stiftung
Siemens AG
SpencerStuart
Starbucks Coffee Deutschland GmbH
Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft e.V.
Tesco Stores Ltd.
The Aspen Institute
Twitter Deutschland
UPS Deutschland Inc. & Co. OHG
URS Corporation
Baker & McKenzie
Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH
Coca-Cola GmbH
Daimler AG
DARAG AG
Dr. KADE Pharmazeutische Fabrik GmbH
Ernst & Young GmbH
FPS Rechtsanwälte & Notare
GÖRG Rechstanwälte
Knick Elektronische Messgeräte GmbH&Co.KG
Korn/Ferry International GmbH
Landesbank Berlin AG
Lilly Deutschland GmbH
Robert Bosch GmbH
Siemens AG
Christoph Abeln
Patrick Ams
Volker Anger
Jörg Baldauf
Peter Bassmann
Karl H. Behle
Rüdiger Boergen
Andreas Brähler
Heinz Bree
Gregor Breitkopf
James Conrad
Bernhard M. Deppisch
Detlef Diederichs
Steven Disman
Margrit Disman
Matthias Druba
Britt Sylvia Eckelmann
Rakhamim Emanuilov
Kristina Flügel
Ralf Fücks
Hans-Michael Giesen
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Uwe Günther
Thomas Haberkamm
Klaus E. Herkenroth
Arno Heuermann
Wolfgang Hohensee
Oliver Hohenstatter
Kay P. Hradilak
Florian Jehle
August von Joest
Martina Jung
Christof Jäckle
Peter Kerscher
Hanns-Karsten Kirchmann
Nikolai Kleckow
Peter Lennartz
Jan Ulrich Losemann
Andreas Luckow
Jürgen Mäurer
Udo von Massenbach
Marco Macori
Claus-Peter Martens
Lucas Martin
Cornelia Masuhr
Harald Mau
Ulrich Misgeld
Bernhard Müller
Wolfram Nolte
Younes Ouaqasse
Werner Pahlitzsch
Ulrich Plett
Jens Poll
Lars Preusser
Hans-Jürgen Rabe
André Reichow
Jürgen Reuning
Valerie von Ribbentrop
Björn Rupp
Johannes J. Rüberg
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Jürgen Schach von Wittenau
Sigram Schindler
Kerstin von Schnakenburg
Peter Schnitzler
Otmar Schuster
Urs Viktor Schwerzmann
Leonardo Scimmi
Patrick Freiherr von Stauffenberg
Jürgen B. Steinke
Sergej Sumlenny
Christian R. Supthut
Simon Vaut
Sandy Weiner
Maximilian von Wiedersperg
Detlef Wilschke
Sven Wingerter
Jürgen Schach von Wittenau
Janine Woelki
Christine Wolff
Mark Young
Dr. Roland Hoffmann-Theinert,
Partner, GÖRG Rechtsanwälte
René Obermann,
CEO, Deutsche Telekom AG
Yoram Ben Zeev,
Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Federal Republic of Germany
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TRUsTees
Chairman
Dr. Corinne Michaela Flick1
Founder and Chief Executive Officer Convoco
Charitable Foundation gGmbH for the Promotion
of Science and Education
Prof. Dr. Volker Berghahn
Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University
Eckardt von Klaeden
Minister of State in the German Federal Chancellery
Reinhard Bütikofer
Member of European Parliament
Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen
David Knower1
Chief Operating Officer
Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH
Dr. Gerhard Cromme
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Siemens AG & Thyssen Krupp AG
Yotaro Kobayashi2
Chairman, The Aspen Institute Japan
Dr. Mathias Döpfner
Chief Executive Officer, Axel Springer AG
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Carl Douglas
Vice Chairman of the Board, Securitas AB
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Leonhard H. Fischer
Chief Executive Officer, RHJ International
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Mircea Geoana
President of the Board, The Aspen Institute Romania
Dr. Roland Hoffmann-Theinert1|2
Chairman, Friends of the Aspen Institute
Sue Koffel1
The Math Inquiries Project
Helmut F. Meier1
Senior Advisor, Booz & Company
Prof. Dr. Friedberg Pflüger
Senior Lecturer, King’s College, London
Dr. Kurt Schwarz1
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Leifina GmbH
Robert K. Steel2
Chairman, The Aspen Institute
Josef Joffe
Publisher and Editor in Chief, Die Zeit
Prof. Dr. h.c. Horst Teltschik
Foreign and Security Advisor to
German Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl
Jean-Pierre Jouyet2
Chairman, The Aspen Institute France
Gautam Thapar2
Chairman, The Aspen Institute India
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Prof. Giulio Tremonti2
Chairman, The Aspen Institute Italia
Prof. David Marquand FBA
Principal, ret., Mansfield College, Oxford
Karsten D. Voigt
Former Coordinator of German-North American
Cooperation, German Federal Foreign Office
Walter Momper MdA
President of the Berlin State Assembly
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Klaus Wowereit
Governing Mayor, Berlin
Edzard Reuter
Chairman, The Shepard Stone Foundation
Helmut Schmidt
Former German Federal Chancellor
Honorary Trustees
Georges Berthoin
Honorary European Chairman,
The Trilateral Commission
Prof. Dr. Kurt H. Biedenkopf
Former Premier of Saxony
Dr. Hildegard Boucsein
Former State Secretary, State of Berlin
Prof. Paul Doty
Director Emeritus, Belfer Center for Science &
International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
Dr. Alexander A. Kwapong
Chairman, Council of State, Ghana
Prof. Dr. h.c. Lothar Späth
Vice Chairman Europe, Merrill Lynch
Prof. Fritz Stern
Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Columbia
University
Dietrich Stobbe
Former Governing Mayor of Berlin
Dr. Richard von Weizsäcker
Former Federal President of Germany
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Werner Weidenfeld
Ludwig-Maximilian-University
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Volker Berghahn | Prof. Volker
Berghahn is the Seth Low
Professor of History at Columbia
University. He studied at the
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, where he received
his M.A. before moving to the
University of London to do his
PhD. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow at St.
Antony’s College, Oxford, he completed his Habilitation
and received his venia legendi from the University of
Mannheim. From 1969 he taught at the University of
East Anglia in England and at Warwick University before
accepting a professorship at Brown University in 1989
and his current position at Columbia in 1998. He has
published more than a dozen books on modern German
history and European-American business relations after
1945. His “America and the Intellectual Cold Wars in
Europe” appeared in 2001. It deals with the work of
Shepard Stone in early postwar Germany and at the Ford
Foundation in the 1950s and 1960s. Stone later became
the first director of the Aspen Institute Germany.
Reinhard Bütikofer | Reinhard
Bütikofer is a Member of the
European Parliament. He was
previously president of Alliance
90/The Greens. Before that, he
had been the party’s National Executive Director from December
1998. As one of the leading
national politicians within the Green Party, Mr. Bütikofer
looks back on a long-standing career within the green
movement, with about twenty years of experience in public life. Mr. Bütikofer became a member of the Greens
in 1984 and was also elected to the city council of
Heidelberg. In 1988, he was elected to the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg and became the Green parliamentary group's Speaker on budget issues and
European affairs. Over ten years he contributed in several
commissions to his party's platform and became a key
point campaigner in different national and state elections.
In 1997, he was elected chairman of the state-level party
organization of Baden-Württemberg.
Gerhard Cromme | Dr. Gerhard
Cromme, born 1943, studied law
and economics at the universities
of Münster, Lausanne, Paris and
Harvard (PMD), where he
gained a doctorate. From 1971 to
1986, Dr. Cromme worked for
the Compagnie de Saint Gobain
group, ultimately as Deputy Delegate General for the
Federal Republic of Germany. At the same time, he was
also Chairman of the Board of Management of
VEGLA/Vereinigte Glaswerke GmbH in Aachen. In
1986, he joined the Krupp Group, where he was
Executive Board Chairman of the group holding company from 1989. In 1999, Krupp and Thyssen merged to
form ThyssenKrupp. Dr. Cromme was Executive Board
chairman of the company until 2001. In October 2001,
he became Chairman of the Supervisory Board of
ThyssenKrupp AG. Since April 2007, Dr. Cromme has
been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Siemens
AG. He is also a member of the supervisory boards of
Allianz SE, Axel Springer AG and Compagnie de SaintGobain. In addition, he is a member of the European
Round Table of Industrialists, which he chaired from
2001-2005. From 2003-2007, Dr. Cromme was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the European School
of Management and Technology (ESMT) in Berlin. From
2001 to June 2008 he was Chairman of the Government
Commission on the German Corporate Governance
Code.
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Döpfner, born 1963, studied musicology, German and theatrical
arts in Frankfurt and Boston. He
started his career as a journalist
at the Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung in 1982. He was director
of a public relations agency from
1988 to 1990. In 1992 he worked for the Gruner + Jahr
publishing company in Paris and later became assistant
to the company’s CEO. He then held further positions in
journalism as editor-in-chief of the Wochenpost in Berlin
(1994–1996) and the Hamburger Morgenpost (1996–
1998). He has been with Axel Springer AG since 1998,
initially as editor-in-chief of Die Welt. Dr. Döpfner became the member of the management board responsible
for the multimedia division in July 2000 and took charge
of the newspapers division as well in October 2000. He
has been CEO of Axel Springer AG since January 2002.
directors of RHJ International
S.A. since September 18, 2007.
He is also chief executive officer
of the Kleinwort Benson Group
and chairman of the board of
directors at Kleinwort Benson
Bank Ltd. He is a member of the
board of directors at Julius Baer
Gruppe AG (formerly Julius Bär Holding AG), as well
as an independent non-executive director at Glencore
International plc. Mr. Fischer was chief executive officer
of Winterthur Group from 2003 to 2006 and a member
of the executive board of Credit Suisse Group from 2003
to March 2007. He joined Credit Suisse Group from
Allianz AG, where he had been a member of the management board and head of the Corporates and Markets
Division. Prior to this, he had been a member of the
executive boards of Dresdner Bank AG in Frankfurt. He
holds an M.A. in Finance from the University of Georgia.
Carl Douglas | Carl Douglas
Corinne Flick | Dr. Corinne
has been the Vice Chairman of
Assa Abloy AB since April 2012.
Mr. Douglas has been the Vice
Chairman of Securitas AB since
2008 and has been its Director
since 1999. Mr. Douglas serves
as a Director of Swegon AB and
Säk I AB. He has been a Director at Investment AB
Latour since 2008, Niscayah Group AB since May 23,
2006 and Assa Abloy AB since 2004. Mr. Douglas served
as a Deputy Director at Securitas AB from 1992 to 1999
and also served as a Director of Nobia AB. He holds a
Bachelor of Arts.
Michaela Flick is Founder and
Chief Executive Officer of the
Convoco Charitable Foundation
gGmbH for the Promotion of
Science and Education. She was
a co-founder of the Friends of
the Bavarian State Library,
Munich, is a Member of the Board of Trustees of the
Munich Technical University and a Member of the
Executive Committee of the Tate Gallery, London. Dr.
Flick was an associate of Vivil GmbH & Co. KG, Offenburg and provided legal counsel to Bertelsman Buch AG
and amazon.com after receiving her doctorate in law in
1989. In addition to law, Dr. Flick studied literature and
minored in American studies. Dr. Flick lives with her
husband and daughter in London.
Mathias Döpfner | Dr. Mathias
Leonhard Fischer | Leonhard Fischer was appointed
the chief executive officer of RHJ International S.A. in
January 2009, having been the co-chief executive officer
from May 2007. He has been a member of the board of
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| Mircea
Geoana is President of the Board
of The Aspen Institute Romania
and has been the Chairman of
the Romanian Social-Democratic Party (PSD) since 2005. He is
also the Chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee of the
Romanian Senate. In January 2006, he was elected
Chairman of the Socialist International Committee for
South-Eastern Europe. Prior to his political career,
Mircea Geoana had a successful career as a diplomat.
Appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Romania to the United States of America at age
thirty-seven, in February 1996, he was the youngest ambassador in the Romanian diplomatic corps. From 2000
to 2004, Mircea Geoana served as Minister of Foreign
Affairs of Romania. In this capacity, he also served as
OSCE Chairman-in-Office in 2001. Mircea Geoana is an
expert on transatlantic integration. Author of various
books and articles on the subject, he also was a NATO
fellow on democratic institutions in 1994. He has
lectured on foreign policy, transitional economies, and
globalization at major American universities and think
tanks. Mircea Geoana has a PhD in world economy from
the Economic Studies Academy of Bucharest.
Mircea
Geoana
Roland Hoffmann-Theinert |
Dr. Roland Hoffmann-Theinert
is Chairman of the Friends of the
Aspen Institute and a Partner at
Görg-Rechtsanwälte. He was a
founder of the Berlin offices and
a longtime member of Görg’s
management. He leads the
company’s company law practice, which – with sixty attorneys – is the company’s strongest business-line.
Hoffmann-Theinert was born in Bielefeld Westphalia in
1960, where he finished his training as a Banker at the
local branch of the Dresdner Bank. He passed the first
state bar exam at Passau. Before he started his articles,
Hoffmann-Theinert worked for Dresdner Bank in Singapore in 1986. In 1988 he worked for ABD Securities Inc.
in New York. In between these two postings, he was a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Alexander Hollerbach at the
Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg. He finished his
articles at the high state court in Cologne while working
as Assistant at the Institute for Banking Law in Cologne.
His elective work was at a law firm in Dubai. In 1991 he
passed the second state bar exam and received his
doctorate from the Albert-Ludwigs University summa
cum laude and received the Georg F. Roessler prize for
Lawyers at the Supreme Court for his dissertation. He
began his professional career as personal assistant to a
director of one of the leading German finance houses.
He switched in the same year to the predecessor company
Lüer & Görg and opened their Berlin office in 1993.
Jean-pierre Jouyet | JeanPierre Jouyet is the Chairman of
the Board of Institut Aspen
France. Currently he is Chief
Executive Officer of the Caisse
des Dépôts. Previously, he was
Chairman of the French securities regulator, l’Autorité des
Marchés Financiers (AMF). He was Minister of State,
attached to the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs,
responsible for European Affairs in the François Fillon
government from May 2007. Jouyet graduated from the
Paris Institute of Political Studies (IEP), he then went on
to study at the École Nationale d’Administration (ENA).
Thereafter he became a member of the group of Inspecteurs des finances, before holding a series of senior
posts such as Principal at the Service de la legislation
fiscale, and Principal Private Secretary of the Minister
of Industry, Foreign Trade and Town and Country Planning until 1991 when he was called to serve initially as
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Deputy and then Head of Cabinet of the President of the
European Commission, Jacques Delors, President of the
European Commission until 1995. From 1995 until 1997,
Jean-Pierre Jouyet was a partner in Jeantet & Co, a
French business law firm, which he left at the request of
the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to become his Deputy
Principal Private Secretary until 2000, during which he
contributed to France’s entry into the Euro zone. He then
became Head of the French Trésor Directorate from
2000 until 2004, when Nicolas Sarkozy, who had been
appointed Minister of Finance, requested him to become
France’s Ambassador for international economic affairs.
During his tenure as Head of the French Trésor Directorate, he was also President of the Club de Paris. He
was briefly non executive chairman of Barclays Bank
France in 2005, before being designated Head of the
Service de l’Inspection générale des finances within the
Ministry of Finance until 2007.
eckardt von Klaeden | Dr.
Eckardt von Klaeden has been a
Minister of State to the German
Federal Chancellor with responsibility for liaison with German
federal states since 2009. He has
been treasurer and member of
the praesidium of the German
Christian Democratic Union since 2006. From 2005 to
2009 he was the foreign policy spokesman of the CDU
parliamentary party in the German Bundestag. He has
been a member of the management board of the CDU
since 2005. From 2000-2005 he was Whip of the
CDU/CSU Bundestag faction. He has been admitted to
practice law since 1996 and has been chairman of the
CDU in Hildesheim since 1995, after first becoming a
member of the German Bundestag in 1994. Dr. von
Klaeden studied law at Göttingen and Würzburg. He is
married with three daughters.
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David Knower | David Knower
has been the Chief Operating
Officer and Geschäftsführer of
Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH since
2003. Prior to this, Mr. Knower
was the Owner and Managing
Director of Invenimus, an International Consulting Firm headquartered near Frankfurt,
Germany. Before starting his own company, Mr. Knower
worked for Procter & Gamble for eleven years, where he
started his professional career in Germany in 1986. After
nine years in Finance and Controlling positions, Mr.
Knower spent two years managing the Procter & Gamble
Germany Fine Fragrance business in Asia Pacific. Mr.
Knower received two undergraduate degrees from the
University of Massachusetts, (Economics, German) in
1983, as well as being named a Commonwealth Scholar.
Mr. Knower spent the academic year 1981/82 studying
in Freiburg, Germany. He received his MBA from the
American Graduate School of International Management
(Thunderbird), in 1985. Mr. Knower is board member of
the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany, President of the American German Business Club in Frankfurt, Chairman of the Republicans Abroad Europe, Vice
President of the Steuben-Schurz Gesellschaft, member
of the board of trustees of “The English Theatre,” in
Frankfurt and serves on various supervisory and advisory
boards in Germany. Mr. Knower, born in May of 1961,
is an American Citizen and a resident of Germany. He
has three children.
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Yotaro
Kobayashi | Yotaro
Kobayashi is the Chairman of
the Board of The Aspen Institute
Japan, and is chief corporate advisor, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. He
serves on the corporate boards of
Callaway Golf Company, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corporation (NTT), and Sony Corporation, while being
a Trustee of Keio University, and Chairman of International University of Japan. He is also the Pacific Asia
chairman of the Trilateral Commission and a member of
the advisory board of the Council on Foreign Relations
and Stanford University's Institute of International
Studies. He is a winner of the Japanese government's
Blue Ribbon Medal.
sue Koffel | Sue Koffel is
founder of The Math Inquiries
Project, a privately funded research project currently studying
the social marketing issues of algebra education in California.
She has degrees in Mathematics
and Cybernetic Systems. Sue
and her husband, Martin Koffel, have had a long association with the transatlantic relationship through business,
government and policy institutions in Europe and the
U.S. Sue has studied several European languages and has
a particular interest in German. She breeds and raises
Hanoverian horses in California from an imported
dressage line. Her husband is Chairman and CEO of the
San Francisco-based URS Corporation, the largest
engineering company in the U.S.
Helmut Meier | Helmut Meier is Senior Advisor, Booz
& Company (the former Booz Allen Hamilton) in
Düsseldorf and Vienna. In his twenty-six year consulting
career he served in many leadership functions, including
the lead of the global Communications, Media and Technology
practice (CMT) until 2001. He
also served on Booz Allen’s
Board of Directors twice for a
three-year period (until 2008).
Meier has been with Booz &
Company since October 1982.
Before joining Booz & Company he gained industrial
experience in several projects dealing with market and
technology development in the communications and information industry. He started his professional career in
product and strategic planning at Siemens AG, Munich,
and Siemens Corp., Florida, being responsible for the
planning of integrated office communication systems.
Helmut Meier holds a degree in Computer Science from
the University of Bonn and an MBA from INSEAD
(Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires),
Fontainebleau, France.
Friedbert pflüger | Prof. Dr.
Friedbert Pflüger is a Senior
Lecturer at Kings College, London. Previously, he was a member of the CDU parliamentary
group in the Berlin House of
Representatives. Pflüger studied
political science, public and constitutional law and economics at Göttingen, Bonn and
Harvard, earning his MA in 1980 and PhD in 1982. He
joined the Christian Democratic Union in 1971. Federal
Chairman of the Association of Christian Democratic
Students, 1977-78. Deputy Chairman of the European
Democrat Students (EDS), 1976-78. Member of the
Federal Executive Committee of the Junge Union, 197785. Since 2000, he has been a member of the Federal
Executive Committee of the CDU. From 1981-84, Mr.
Pflüger was an assistant to the Governing Mayor of
Berlin. He served as spokesman for German President
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Richard von Weizsäcker from 1984-89. From 1989-91,
he was manager of the Matuschka Group, Munich. In
1991 he became deputy chairman of the CDU’s Federal
Committee on Foreign Policy, ascending to the committee’s chairmanship in 1999. From 1990 until 2006, he
was a member of the Bundestag where he served on the
Defense Committee and the Committee on Foreign
Affairs. Disarmament Policy Spokesman of the
CDU/CSU parliamentary group, 1994-98 and foreign
policy spokesman 2002-05. Chairman of the Bundestag
Committee on the Affairs of the European Union, 19982002. Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Defense 2005-06. Chairman of the CDU
parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives, 2006-08. Since 2006, he has also been a member
of the National Executive Committee of the CDU.
Kurt schwarz | Kurt Schwarz
was born on June 19, 1951 near
Düsseldorf. He lives with his
wife Eleftheria Xanthopoulou
and three children in Munich,
Berlin, and Athens. After finishing High School in Dusseldorf,
he studied medicine and law at
the University of Heidelberg and obtained his MD degree
in 1979. After his doctoral thesis in Experimental Pharmacology, he joined the Department of Internal Medicine
of the University Hospital in Heidelberg. In 1982, he was
awarded a visiting fellowship by the German Research
Foundation at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In 1986, he joined
Merck & Co. (New Jersey) and returned to Germany to
work for the German subsidiary in Product Management
and Medical Affairs. In 1990, Dr. Schwarz founded his
Investment Company Leifina GmbH in Munich and
joined the board of overseers of Schwarz Pharma AG,
representing the Schwarz family as a major shareholder.
Dr. Schwarz holds several board seats and is actively
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involved in several cultural, philanthropic, and political
institutions.
Robert steel | Robert K. Steel
is the Chairman of the Board of
The Aspen Institute. He was Undersecretary of the Treasury for
Domestic Finance from 2006 to
2009. In that capacity, he served
as the principal adviser to the
Secretary on matters of domestic
finance and led the de-partment’s activities with respect
to the domestic finan-cial system, fiscal policy and operations, governmental assets and liabilities, and related
economic and financial matters. Steel retired from Goldman Sachs as a vice chairman of the firm on February 1,
2004. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1976 and served in
the Chicago office until his transfer to London in 1986.
In London he founded the Equity Capital Markets group
for Europe and was extensively involved in privatization
and capital raising efforts for European corporations and
governments. He later assumed the position of head of
Equities for Europe. In 1994 he relocated to New York
and served as head of the Equities Division from 19982001 until his appointment as a vice chairman of the
firm. He became a partner in 1988 and joined the Management Committee in 1999. Upon his retirement from
Goldman Sachs, he assumed the position of advisory director for the firm and then senior director in December
2004. From February 2004 to September 2006 Mr. Steel
served as a senior fellow at the Center for Business and
Government at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University. Mr. Steel received
his undergraduate degree from Duke University and his
MBA from the University of Chicago. He resides in
Connecticut and Washington, D.C. with his wife and
three daughters.
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Horst Teltschik | Prof. Dr.
Horst Teltschik was the Foreign
and Security Policy Advisor to
German Federal Cancellor
Helmut Kohl. He is Chairman of
Teltschik Associates GmbH. He
is also the former president of
Boeing Germany. Prior to serving in this position, he was a member of the Board of
Management of the BMW Group specializing in
economic and governmental affairs, and was chairman
of the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt in Munich. Dr.
Teltschik also served as chief executive officer of the
Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh. In his role as a
public servant, he worked as ministerial director at the
German Federal Chancellery; was head of the Directorate General for Foreign and Intra-German Relations,
Development Policy, and External Security; and served
as national security advisor to the German Chancellor,
Helmut Kohl. Dr. Teltschik is a member of the University
Council of the Munich Academy of Arts, and also of the
International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign
Relations, New York, USA. He is a lecturer at the Faculty
of Economics and Social Sciences at the Munich
Technical University.
Gautam Thapar | Gautam Tha-
par is the Chairman of The
Aspen Institute India. He was
born in 1960, educated at the
Doon School in India, and studied chemical engineering in the
USA. Upon returning to India,
he worked as a factory assistant
in one of his family-owned manufacturing companies.
He rose steadily and steered the organization through a
strategic turnaround. Gautam became Group Chairman
in 2006, and the conglomerate was rebranded as Avantha
in 2007. With a global footprint in over ten countries,
Avantha today has business interests in diverse areas, including pulp & paper, power transmission & distribution
equipment and services, food processing, farm forestry,
chemicals, energy, infrastructure, information technology
(IT) and IT-enabled services. Gautam passionately
promotes education, leadership development and sports.
He is also President of Thapar University, President of
the All-India Management Association (AIMA), and
President of the Professional Golf Tour of India. One of
India's youngest and brightest global business leaders,
Gautam received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the
Year Award for Manufacturing in 2008.
Giulio Tremonti | Prof. Giulio
Tremonti is Chairman of Aspen
Institute Italia and former
Minister of Finance of the Italian
Republic. Previously, he was
Vice President of the Italian
Chamber of Deputies and a professor at the University of Pavia’s
Faculty of Law as well as co-editor of the Rivista di
Diritto Finanziario e Scienza delle Finanze (Financial
Law and Science Review) and a member of the moral
science section, of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di
Scienze e Lettere. He has been a Senior Teaching Fellow
at the Institute of European and Comparative Law at
Oxford University and has had work published by Il
Mulino, Mondadori, and Laterza. Prof. Tremonti has participated in a number of national commissions including
the Italian-Vatican Commission. He was president of the
Commission for Currency Exchange Control Reform. In
1994, he was elected to the Lower House of Parliament
(Chamber of Deputies) for the XII Legislature. He was
re-elected in the two following legislatures (XIII and
XIV). He was Finance Minister in the first Berlusconi
Government (1994). He was also a member of the Joint
Parliamentary Commission for the Reform of the Italian
Constitution as well as chairman, during the Italian term,
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of the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the
G7 and the Ecofin Council.
Karsten Voigt | Karsten D.
Voigt was the Coordinator of
German-North American Cooperation at the German Federal
Foreign Office from 1999 to
2009. He majored in history and
in German and Scandinavian
studies at the Universities of
Hamburg, Copenhagen and Frankfurt. Mr. Voigt became
actively engaged in politics at an early age. He accompanied witnesses during the Auschwitz trial proceedings
and took part in Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations. From
1969 until 1973 he served as Chairman of the German
Young Socialists Organization. From 1984 until 1995 he
was a member of the Executive Committee of the
German Social Democratic Party and from 1985 to 1994,
member of the Executive Committee of the Party of
European Socialists. From 1976 to 1998, he served as a
Member of the German Federal Parliament (Bundestag)
for the Social Democrats (SPD). From 1977 to 1998 he
also served as a Member of the NATO Parliamentary
Assembly, of which he was President between 1994 and
1996. Mr. Voigt’s expertise is in the fields of foreign
policy and security. From 1983 to 1998, he was foreign
policy spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group.
Klaus Wowereit | Klaus Wow-
ereit is the Governing Mayor of
Berlin. He was elected to office
on June 16, 2001 and won reelection on November 23, 2006.
He is a member of the Social
Democratic Party (SPD). As
Berlin is both Germany’s capital
and one of the country’s sixteen federal states, Wowereit
serves as mayor of the city and head of the federal state.
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Since November 23, 2006, he has also been the Senator
(State Minister) for Cultural Affairs. Wowereit attended
the Free University of Berlin, where he received his law
degree in 1981. He served from 1979 to 1984 as an
assembly member in Berlin’s Tempelhof district and
worked for the Senate Department of the Interior from
1981 to 1984. At thirty, he became the city’s youngest
municipal council member in the Tempelhof district, and
in 1995 he was elected to the city’s parliament. He served
as deputy head of the SPD parliamentary group in the
Berlin House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999 and
subsequently as their leader from December 1999 to June
2001. On the federal level, he was appointed President
of the Bundesrat, the upper house of the German parliament, for the one-year term from November 1, 2001 to
October 31, 2002.
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BOARD
The Management Board (Vorstand) of The Aspen Institute Germany consists of a chair, the Executive Director
of the Aspen Institute Germany, and up to five additional
members who serve for a maximum of two three-year
terms pro bono publico. The Vorstand represents the
institute legally and advises the Executive Director on
legal matters, fundraising, the program, finance and accounting, and strategic communication.
Chairman
Charles King Mallory IV
Executive Director, Aspen Institute Deutschland e.V.
Dr. Christoph Abeln
Founder, Abeln Attorneys for Labor Law
August von Joest
Prof. Dr. Joachim Krause
Professor of International Relations, Director, Institute
for Security Policy, Christian-Albrechts University,
Kiel
Peter Lennartz
Partner, Ernst & Young
Urs Schwerzmann
CEO, Schwerzmann & Team AG
| Dr.
Christoph Abeln is founder and
attorney for labor law at the
Berlin law offices of Abeln Attorneys for Labor Law. After
studying in Freiburg and Munich, Dr. Abeln received his PhD
from the Ludwig Maximilian
University in Munich. His dissertation compared “The
Legal Status of Management Board Members and Works
Council Members.” After taking articles in Berlin, he
passed the bar in 1994. In addition to his work as an attorney, Dr. Abeln has spoken at the German Society for
Personnel Management, the labor policy publishers
“Labor and Law” as well as at the Forum Institute for
Management GmbH.
Christoph
Abeln
August von Joest | August von
Joest was a partner at Odewald
& Compagnie, Germany’s leading private equity firm. Mr. von
Joest was trained at BMW AG in
Munich and Bonn and at Gebr.
Weyersberg GmbH in Solingen.
After serving abroad in Seoul,
Hong Kong, and Vietnam from 1972 to 1974, Mr. von
Joest worked as a manager at CCC Hamburg and at
Michael Thomas & Partner in Hamburg, Nigeria, and
Saudi Arabia. Mr. von Joest was Director, National and
International Sales at MBB’s Helicopter Division in Munich from 1980 to 1990. After one year as Assistant Director at the Treuhandanstalt in Berlin, Mr. von Joest
became Managing Director, Europe of Price Waterhouse
Corporate Finance and Recovery.
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Joachim Krause | Prof. Dr.
Charles Mallory | Charles King
Joachim Krause has been professor of international relations and
Director of the Institute for Social Sciences at Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel since
2001. From 1978 to 1993, Mr.
Krause was a researcher at the
research institute of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik. Next, he was deputy director of the German Council
on Foreign Relations (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik) until 2001 and then Steve Muller Professor
for German Studies at the Paul Nitze School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
in Bologna, Italy from 2002 to 2003. In addition to his
professional activities, professor Krause has been a member of numerous German government delegations, including to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva
1988-1989 and the UN Special Commission and Observer Mission in Iraq from 1991-1992.
Mallory IV received his education at Volksschule in Hamburg,
at Westminster School London
and at Middlebury College, Vermont; he studied for an M.A. in
International Relations at Johns
Hopkins University and a PhD at
the RAND Graduate School. Mr. Mallory worked at the
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and at
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, where he co-wrote the
“Role of Chemical Weapons in Soviet Military Doctrine”
with Professor J. Krause of Kiel University. Mr. Mallory
was CEO of Credit Suisse Investment Funds Moscow,
before joining Allied Capital Corporation—a private equity and mezzanine investment fund. For the five years
prior to joining Aspen Germany, Mallory was Senior Advisor to Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
Urs schwerzmann | Urs V.
peter Lennartz | Peter Lennartz
is an assurance Partner with
Ernst & Young. He started with
Ernst & Young in Hamburg 1985
and transferred to Ernst & Young
Boston from 1999-2002 to serve
German clients in the U.S. in his
role as the German Audit Desk
Partner. Peter joined Ernst & Young Berlin in 2002 and
is currently responsible for Ernst & Young’s Emerging
Internet Companies Group in Berlin and is also leading
the healthcare activities in the Northeast Region. He
serves national and international clients in the technology
as well as healthcare sector and is specialized in U.S.
GAAP including Sarbanes Oxley 404 Services as well
as IFRS.
Schwerzmann is Chief Executive
Officer of Schwerzmann & Team
AG in Stuttgart. The company
specializes in corporate design
and corporate communication
(internal communications, client
newsletters, company reports
and company communications). He received his training
in graphic design at the industrial art school in
Luzern/Zurich, which he graduated from in 1973 with a
confederal certificate of competency. Mr. Schwerzmann
worked as a graphic artist and art director in Vienna,
Milan and Stuttgart from 1974 to 1978. In 1978 Mr.
Schwerzmann founded his own design bureaus in Zurich
and Stuttgart. Mr. Schwerzman has been CEO since the
design bureaus were transformed into a corporation in
1990. Mr. Schwerzmann’s work has earned him numerous national and international prizes.
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Members of the Management Board of the Friends of the
Aspen Institute are responsible for winning and retaining
members in the Friends of the Aspen Institute, they serve
on a pro bono publico basis. Since 2011, the Management Boards of both organizations (The Aspen Institute
Germany and the Friends of the Aspen Institute) have
met in joint session.
Chairman
Roland Hoffmann-Theinert
GÖRG Rechtsanwälte
Britt Eckelmann
cpm architekten
Ulrich Plett
Ernst & Young GmbH
Arno Heuermann
Catenion GmbH
Maximilian von Wiedersperg
Bayerische Motorenwerke AG
Roland Hoffman-Theinert |
Roland Hoffmann-Theinert. is
Chairman of the Friends of the
Aspen Institute and a Partner at
Görg-Rechtsanwälte. He was a
founder of the Berlin offices and
a long-time member of Görg’s
management. He leads the company’s company law practice, which – with sixty attorneys – is the company’s strongest business-line.
Hoffmann-Theinert was born in Bielefeld Westphalia in
1960, where he finished his training as a Banker at the
local branch of the Dresdner Bank.
Britt eckelmann | Britt S.
Eckelmann, is the managing
shareholder of cpm architects in
Berlin. After her studies at the
Technical University Berlin,
University of Brighton, and
University of Manitoba, she focused her architectural practice
on workplace and office design. Since completing her
Executive MBA at ESCP in Paris in 2008, she has been
active in investment management in the real estate sector.
She trains young and foreign architects on the building
code, HOAI and on multinational and virtual teams at the
Berlin architectural guild. Eckelmann serves on the advisory board of the chair for entrepreneurship and innovation at the Technical University Berlin. She became a
member of the Management Board of the Friends of the
Aspen Institute in 2010.
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Ulrich plett | Ulrich Plett is
Maximilian von Wiedersperg
Office Managing Partner of
Ernst & Young Berlin. He studied business administration in
Münster and Munich and started
his career in 1980 in the Chicago
office. After one year he went
back to Hamburg until he again
moved abroad to Barcelona for 3 years, where he grew
the German Client base of his audit firm in Spain. In
1993 he transferred back to Germany to built up the
newly opened office in Berlin. His clients include
publicly listed media and entertainment, internet and
technology clients.
| Maximilian von Wiedersperg,
Born in London in 1978,
Wiedersperg’s family moved to
Germany where he terminated
his school career with the A
levels at the wonderful SalvatorKolleg in Bad Wurzach nearby
the Lake of Constance. After finishing his military
service he completed an apprenticeship in the Kempinski
Hotel Adlon in Berlin. Afterwards von Wiedersperg studied International Business Administration at the Zeppelin
University. For nearly eight years, besides his family consisting of his wife and the four children, the BMW Group
has been his passion. In Berlin he is in charge of Official
and Government Sales, Special Vehicles. It is with great
pleasure that he is a member of the Management Board
of the “Verein der Freunde des Aspen Institutes e.V.”
Arno Heuermann | Arno
Heuermann is a Founder and the
Managing Director of Catenion,
a Life Science management consultancy firm focused on pharmaceutical and medical device
companies worldwide. While
studying for his degrees, Arno
founded a technical engineering office in 1994. He
continued to follow the entrepreneurial path in 1998 by
founding Biopsytec, a DNA diagnostics company
focused on agriculture, heading the company for more
than five years. In 1999 he co-founded Epigenomics AG,
a DAX listed biotech company, for which he later
continued to act as an advisor and member of the firm’s
supervisory board. At the same time Arno was involved
in several other projects like the Phorms schools, pharma
startups and others.
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Ana Trišić-Babić,
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Milan Roćen,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Montenegro
Philip T. Reeker,
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
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southeast europe Foreign Ministers’
Conference V
november 23, 2012
Dr. Guido Westerwelle and Dr. János Martonyi, foreign
ministers of the Federal Republic of Germany and the
Republic of Hungary, opened The Aspen Institute Germany’s fifth Southeast European Foreign Ministers’ conference on November 23rd, 2012 in the premises of the
Hungarian Embassy to the Federal Republic of Germany
in Berlin. Prof. Dr. Eckart D. Stratenschulte of the European Academy in Berlin led the two hosts, and the ministers—Enver Hoxhaj (Kosovo), Nebojša Kaluđerović
(Montenegro), Zlatko Lagumdžija, (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Edmond Panariti (Albania), Nikola Poposki
(Macedonia), and Vesna Pusić (Croatia)—in a highly
successful panel discussion of the Euroatlantic integration prospects of their countries. Zoran Vujić (Serbia),
Philip Reeker (USA) and Hasan Göğüş (Turkey) joined
in a debate that took place in front of an audience of over
one hundred and fifty guests from the German government, parliament, expert community and members of the
Berlin diplomatic corps. An economic panel of business
leaders from Southeast Europe, Hungary and Germany
followed. After the public panel discussions, the ministers met behind closed doors to discuss ethnicity, identity
and reconciliation in Southeast Europe and to evaluate
the current state of the Euroatlantic integration process.
Aspen seminar Germany V
november 9-11, 2012
The Aspen Seminar is the secret behind The Aspen Institute’s success. In the German version, over the course of
three days, two skilled moderators lead participants
through classical texts that explore how various cornerstones of the “good society” have been interpreted in
East and West throughout the millennia: Human Nature,
Individual Rights and Liberty, Property and Productivity,
Equality and Social Welfare. The Seminar is a leadership
development program offered in beautiful, natural setting
away from the hectic pace of city life. In a free dialogue,
participants discuss the essence of present and future
challenges Europe, their countries, their organization and
they themselves have faced or will face, drawing on classic and contemporary texts. As a result, this program
encourages participants to reflect on core human values,
recognize their current situations and heighten their humanity. Seasoned leaders from business, science, government, and civil society who will form the next
generation of top leaders are the target participants.
Communication via thorough dialogue is the basis of the
Aspen Institute seminars. Unlike university lectures in
which experts offer instruction on how to read or interpret the classical texts, Aspen Seminars encourage each
participant freely to interpret the material and gain
awareness through dialogue with other participants and,
more importantly, with one’s self.
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May 4-6, 2012
participants
participants
Dr. Christoph Abeln | Partner Abeln Fachanwälte für Arbeits-
Freiherr Georg von Boeselager | persönlich haftender
recht
Gesellschafter Merck Fink & Co., Privatbankiers
Dr. Bernd Ebert | Wissenschaftlicher Referent des General-
Sabine Dietrich | Vorstand/Head of HSSE BP Europe SE
direktors Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Charles Ferguson | Retired Editor The Times Picauyune
Ann Francke | Chief Executive Officer Chartered Management
Jane Ferguson | Retired Teacher Trinity Episcopal School
Institute
Kristina Marie Flügel | Director, Deutsche Bank AG
Helmut Kranzmaier | Partner CNC - Communications and
Axel Gränitz | Vorstand, Dussmann Gruppe
Network Consulting AG
Arno Heuermann | Partner, Chief Operating Officer
Wolfgang Kroh | Senior Advisor Ericsson AB
Catenion GmbH
Mirko Meurer | Vorsitzender der Geschäftsführung boesner
Dr. Raphael Graf Hoensbroech | Project Leader Boston
GmbH
Consulting Group
Christiane Preuß | Kaufmännische Leiterin, Mitglied der
Donata Hopfen | Geschäftsführerin Bild Digital
Geschäftsführung Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz Niederlassung
David Knower | Chief Operating Officer Cerberus Deutschland
Berlin
Kathrina Knower | Managing Director Ksd advisory GmbH
Kathrina von Mitschke-Collande | Doktorandin LMU-München
Birthe Meier | Redakteurin Frontal 21 ZDF
Konstantin von Schulthess | Finance Manager ESBATech GmbH
Dr. Constantin Plenge | Geschäftsführer, Capricornus Capital
Management GmbH
Ulrich Plett | Partner Ernst & Young GmbH
Karsten D. Voigt | Trustee, Aspen Institute Germany
Maximilian von Wiedersperg | Leiter Verkauf Bundesbehörden
BMW Niederlassung Berlin
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March 16-18, 2012
Afghanistan 2014:
Opportunities & Challenges
January 8, 2012
participants
On January 8th, 2012, a meeting took place between a
bipartisan U.S. Congressional delegation under the leadership of Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and representatives
from the newly formed Afghan “National Front” (Rashid
Dostum, Muhammad Mohaqiq and Ahmad Zia Masoud);
it resulted in a joint declaration that was subsequently
published in international media and on the web sites of
the various U.S. Members of Congress. The meeting
reflected rising concern both in Afghanistan and in the
U.S. Congress that the Obama administration might
agree on the essential parameters of a U.S. withdrawal
from Afghanistan bilaterally with the Taliban without adequately involving the other stakeholders. Both the “National Front” as well as the Karzai government saw a risk
of their being excluded from negotiations and of decisions being presented to them as faits accomplis.
Whether these concerns had any foundation is a different
question. The Karzai government tried to mitigate this
risk by means of contacts with the U.S. administration,
the “National Front” leaders tried to influence the
Republican-dominated U.S. House of Representatives.
The Aspen Institute Germany made the meeting logistically possible, at the request of the U.S. Members of
Congress. The Aspen Institute Germany has a long tradition of making “impossible” meetings possible. Doing
so was important during the Cold War, and the institute
continues to do so to this day. The institute’s role was
purely that of a facilitator, without becoming involved in
the substance or taking a political position of any kind
on the issues under discussion.
Joerg M. Borchert | Vice President Chip Card & Security ICs,
Infineon Technologies North America Corporation
Dr. Henning Borwieck | Marketing Director Established Products, Pfizer Deutschland GmbH
Horst von Buttlar | Ressortleiter Financial Times Deutschland
Peter Eitel | Deputy Director Security Governance Result Group
GmbH
Dr. Evelyn N. Farkas | Senior Advisor for Public-Private
Partnership to the Supreme Allied Commander Europe
Dr. Corinne Michaela Flick | Vorstand Convoco Foundation
Jodi Gentilozzi | Director Kelly Financial Resources
Dr. Alexis Graf Hoensbroech | Vice President Commercial
Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Dr. Roland Hoffmann-Theinert | Rechtsanwalt und Notar
GÖRG-Rechtsanwälte
Florian Jehle | Principal Catenion
Claudia Lange | Managing Director Deutsche Bank AG
Carolina Mojto | Independent Architect and Entrepreneur
Freifrau Leslie von Wangenheim | Princeton Schools Committee
International Chair, Princeton University
Freiherr York von Wangenheim | Search Specialist,
SpencerStuart
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Conference IV
December 9-10, 2011
Aspen seminar Germany II
October 28-30, 2011
From December 9-10, 2011, the Aspen Institute
Germany held its fourth Southeast Europe Foreign
Ministers conference in Berlin in cooperation with the
German Federal Foreign Office, the Bavarian State
Chancellery and the Southeast Europe Association, entitled “Prospects and Challenges for the Western
Balkans.” Bavarian State Minister for Federal and European Affairs, Emilia Müller and the President of the
Southeast Europe Association Gernot Erler introduced,
an the letter moderated a public panel discussion with
the participants titled “Quo Vadis, West Balkans? – Challenges for EU and USA.” A second panel on regional cooperation and opportunities for economic development
followed. On the second day, two panels examined
prospects for the Euro-Atlantic Integration of the Western Balkans, the geopolitics of the Western Balkans, including the role of other actors such as Russia, Turkey
and China, and challenges for the economic development
of the Western Balkans. While the first conference day
was open to the public, the second day convened thirtyfive decision makers from the Western Balkans, the
United States and Germany, with professional backgrounds in politics, diplomacy, academia, media, nongovernmental organizations and business behind closed
doors under Chatham House rules.
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Stephanie Brancaforte | Campaign Director AVAAZ
Eva Deininger | CEO Paparazzi Catering & Event GmbH
Axel Springer AG
Maximilian de Maizière | Executive Assistant to Dr. Arend
Oetker, Dr. Arend Oetker Holding GmbH & Co. KG
Margrit Disman | Real Estate Professional
Steve Disman | Former Director Citibank Privatkunden AG
Orban von Fedak | Head of Diversification Program, Airbus SA
Dr. Soeren Fischer | Head of Distribution, Sensors and Communication, Siemens AG, Industry Sector, Industry Automation
Ruth Girardet, Director | Corporate Responsibility and
Communities, Tesco Stores Ltd
Florian Freiherr von Heintze | Deputy Editor in Chief, Bild
Axel Springer AG
Peter Hellmonds | Head of Public and International Affairs,
Nokia Siemens Networks
Christian Hövelhaus | Member of the Management Board,
natGAS AG
Christine Jäckle | Senior Government Official (on leave),
Bundesrechnungshof
Dr. Christof Jäckle, LL.M. | Partner, Hengeler Mueller
Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten
Heinrich von Portatius | Research Analyst Paradigm Capital
Partners
Yvette Robertson | Director/Trainer, The English Workshop
Franz Freiherr von Stauffenberg | Vice President,
40mm Amunition, Rheinmetall Waffe Munition GmbH
Dr. Mark Young | President, Consultant and Trainer
Rational Games, Inc.
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september 16 -18, 2011
participants
Dr. Desiree Baron | Head of External Policy Unit
Embassy of the USA to the Federal Republic of Germany
Sue Kilgannon | Vice President, Corporate Communications
URS Corporation
Dr. Andrej Heinke | Director, Corporate Communications,
Brand Management, and Social Responsibilty
Robert Bosch GmbH
Nikolai Kleckow | Project Manager, Business Development
Lichtensteinische Landesbank AG
Jan Losemann | Attorney/Partner, Losemann, Ludwig & Schönfeld
Johannes Marten | Head of Political Communications & CSRCommunications Deutsche Bank AG
Dr. Dietmar Otti | Managing Director Marketing (Axel Springer
Media Impact) Axel Springer AG
H.E. Dr. Ralph Scheide | Ambassador of the Republic of Austria
to the Federal Republic of Germany
Patrick Freiherr von Stauffenberg | CEO, Berkshire Capital
Securities Ltd
Urs Schwerzmann | CEO, Schwerzmann & Team AG
Jürgen Steinke | Chief Executive Officer Capricornus
Investment GmbH
Christine Wolff | Managing Director and SVP for Europe &
Middle East URS Corporation (until 2010)
Ulrich Ziegler | Editor, Reportage & Hintergrund Deutschlandradio Kultur
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The Greater Middle east & the Transatlantic
Community
november 17, 2012
A Future security Architecture for
southeast europe: Bilateral security Roles
October 22-25, 2012
The Greater Middle East—defined as the area encompassing North Africa, the Levant, the Arab Peninsula and
the Gulf—is undergoing a process of fundamental
change. The “Arab Spring” has brought about a political
dynamic that is ushering in a profound transformation,
the outcome of which no one can predict. This process
is being influenced by (and is also influencing) the Iranian-Arab divide (which is overlaid by the Sunni-Shiah divide), by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and by the
changing perception of Israel in Western Europe. Events
will also be influenced to a great extent by steps that the
transatlantic community (the U.S. and NATO and EU
member states) take (or fail to take) in order to assist the
region achieve a relatively smooth transition. Background papers prepared by outstanding international experts served as preparatory material for the sessions. For
further information, consult the conference report at
→ www.aspeninstitute.de
The Aspen Institute Germany convened its third conference on “A Future Security Architecture for Southeast
Europe” focusing on ‘Bilateral Security Roles in Southeast Europe’ in Brandenburg, Germany between October
22-25, 2012. The event brought together thirty-one
decision makers from the Western Balkans, Germany, the
United States, Turkey, Russia and the EU, with professional backgrounds in government, international and
civil society organizations, academia, the security sector
and Foreign Service. Participants discussed German, EU,
U.S., Russian and Turkish priorities, policies and instruments for a security architecture in Southeast Europe,
regional ideas for increased cooperation with external
actors and means by which to streamline the activities of
the international community in the region. Participants
met with Michael Flügger, Director for Foreign Policy,
Security Policy and Global Issues at the German Federal
Chancellery, Christian Schmidt, Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Defense and
were hosted for dinner by a group of members of the
German Bundestag led by Marieluise Beck.
For further information, consult the conference report at
→ www.aspeninstitute.de
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europe: The Future Roles of nATO and the eU
september 5-8, 2012
A Future security Architecture for southeast
europe: Framing the Issues
June 18-21, 2012
The Aspen Institute Germany partnered with the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Republic of Albania to
convene thirty-nine political leaders, scholars and
consultants in Durrës, Albania between September 5-8,
2012. Participants discussed the future role of NATO in
Southeast Europe, options for a regional security framework, next steps in EU enlargement, and the role of the
EU in advancing regional security in Southeast Europe.
Prime Minister Sali Berisha hosted an opening dinner
together with Majlinda Bregu, Minister for European
Integration, and Arben Imami, Minister of Defense of the
Republic of Albania, at Pallati i Brigadave, the Palace of
Brigades. Foreign Minister Edmond Panariti graciously
opened the conference and hosted a dinner. In addition
to these highlights, participants had an opportunity to exchange views with the mayor of Tirana. The program was
rounded out by tours of Berat Castle and Vlora that offered participants plenty of opportunity to exchange their
views informally.
For further information, consult the conference report at
→ www.aspeninstitute.de
From June 18-21, 2012, the Aspen Institute Germany, in
partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
Republic of Kosovo held a conference in Pristina,
Kosovo. The meeting brought together thirty-six decision makers from Southeast Europe, Germany, the
United States and Turkey with professional backgrounds
in government, the Foreign Service, the security sector,
academia, the media, non-governmental organizations,
civil society and the private sector. Together they discussed the role of ethnicity and identity in Southeast Europe, non-traditional security threats, the security
priorities and policies of regional and external actors, and
potential security frameworks applicable to the region.
The President of the Republic of Kosovo Atifete Jahjaga
opened the conference. In addition to meetings with
Prime Minister Hashim Thaçi and Foreign Minister Enver Hoxhaj, participants had opportunities to meet with
the leaders of key international organizations present in
Kosovo. Plenty of opportunity to mix informally and exchange ideas was provided by a visit to a traditional
mountain restaurant and a sampling of Pristina’s night
life that ran into the early morning hours for some.
For further information, consult the conference report at
→ www.aspeninstitute.de
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March 30-April 2, 2012
sustainable strategies for Afghanistan and
the Region After 2014
January 10-12, 2012
The second Aspen DPRK-USA Dialogue took place in
Germany from March 30 to April 2, 2012. The politi-cal
context was complex. After concluding the “Leap Day
Agreement” on February 29, 2012 (whereby the USA
provided security guarantees, nutritional assistance and
the DPRK announced a moratorium on missile launches
and nuclear tests), the DPRK announced the launch of a
civilian satellite on March 16t, 2012. The U.S. side and
the international community saw this action as a clear violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution
1874 and the USA also saw it as a clear violation of the
just-concluded agreement, which is why they halted their
preparations to provide nutritional assistance to the
DPRK on March 27, 2012. Additional prominent participants made the U.S. delegation higher-level than in
2011. The four-person DPRK delegation was again led
by Director General of the North America Department
of the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ri Gun. The intensity, depth and substance of the ex-changes were more
than comparable with those of 2011. Frank Jannuzi
(active in U.S. Asian policy for twenty-four years), Philip
Zelikow (member of the U.S. delegation to the Two Plus
Four talks and author of the draft DPRK-U.S. Peace
Treaty under G. W. Bush), and Evans Revere (designated
head of the U.S. Liaison Office that was to be established in Pyongyang), among others (e.g. Walter
Slocombe and Alan Larson), were able to bring extensive
experience to bear in order to set the tone.
For further information, consult the conference report at
→ www.aspeninstitute.de
In 2012, in cooperation with the Konrad-AdenauerStiftung, Aspen Germany convened UK Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Mark Sedwill,
University of Illionois Professor Sumit Ganguly, Georgetown University professor Christine Fair, Arleigh Burke
Chair for Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Anthony Cordesman, RAND’s Keith
Crane and Jim Dobbins, officials of the German Federal
Ministries of Foreign Affairs’ and Economy and Technology’s Afghan desks and other international experts and
decision makers to discuss “Sustainable Strategies for
Afghanistan and the Region beyond 2014”. The papers
and proceedings of the conference will, once again, be
peer reviewed and published by Routledge.
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June 14-17, 2011
A stable security Architecture
for the Western Balkans
May 16-19, 2011
From June 14-17, 2011, the Aspen Institute Germany
held a conference in Ohrid, Macedonia, entitled “The
Euro-Atlantic Integration of the Western Balkans: A New
Transatlantic Dialogue – German and U.S. Leaders in
Dialogue with Leaders from the Western Balkans.” The
three-day conference brought together about thirty-four
decision makers from the Western Balkans, the United
States of America and Germany from politics, diplomacy, academia, media, non-governmental organizations
and business. Participants discussed the future role of
NATO in Southeast Europe, the Western Balkans’ road
to EU membership, potential security threats to the Western Balkans and the regional fight against organized
crime. In addition, the President of the Republic of
Macedonia, Prof. Dr. Gjorge Ivanov, received the Aspen
group in his residence at lake Ohrid. Foreign Minister
Antonio Milošoski hosted a dinner. A boat tour organized
by the U.S. and German embassies and a barbecue on the
shore of lake Ohrid provided a convivial atmosphere in
which to mix.
For further information, consult the conference report at
→ www.aspeninstitute.de
From May 16-19, 2011, the Aspen Institute Germany
held a conference in Budva, Montenegro, entitled “A Stable Security Architecture for the Western Balkans: A
New Transatlantic Dialogue: German and U.S. Leaders
in Dialogue with Leaders from the Western Balkans.”
The three-day conference brought together approximately forty decision makers from the Western Balkans,
the United States and Germany, with professional backgrounds in politics, diplomacy, academia, media, nongovernmental organizations and business. Participants
discussed the future roles of NATO and the EU in Southeast Europe, the roles of Russia and Turkey, organized
crime and terrorism in the region and energy security as
a challenge to the security architecture of Southeast Europe. In addition, the President, Filip Vujanović, Minister
of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Milan
Roćen, Minister of Defense, Boro Vučinić, and Chief of
the Army General Staff of Montenegro, Dragan
Samardžić received the Aspen group. A boat tour organized by the U.S. and German embassies through the bay
of Kotor and an excursion to Cetinje, Mausoleum Lovčen
and the city of Kotor provided a convivial atmosphere in
which to mix.
For further information, consult the conference report at
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March 29-30, 2011
From March 29-30, 2011, the Aspen Institute Germany
convened a meeting between an official delegation from
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (“DPRK”)
led by Ri Gun, General Director of the America Directorate of the DPRK Ministry of Foreign Affairs and his
deputy Ms. Choe Son Hui, and an unofficial delegation
of former senior U.S. government decision makers and
experts on the DPRK the most senior of which were
Thomas R. Pickering, former Under Secretary of State
for Political Affairs and Dr. Samantha Ravich, former
Deputy Assistant to U.S. Vice President Richard B.
Cheney for National Security Affairs. The meeting consisted of five formal sessions that discussed steps and
obstacles to normalizing DPRK-U.S. relations, nuclear
capabilities on the Korean Peninsula, force reductions on
the Korean Peninsula, Korean economic development
and a Korean peace treaty. The sessions were moderated
by Prof. Horst Teltschik, former Foreign and Security
Advisor to German Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl,
Prof. Michael Stürmer, former Director of Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik and Chief Correspondent of Die
Welt, Prof. Joachim Krause, Chair for International
Relations and Director of the Institute for Social Sciences
at Kiel University and Bruno Pellaud former Deputy
Director General for Safeguards at the International
Atomic Energy Agency.
For further information, consult the conference report at
→ www.aspeninstitute.de
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Charles King Mallory IV,
Executive Director, The Aspen Institute Germany
Reinhard Bütikofer,
Member of the European Parliament
Adam Posen,
Member, Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England
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In 2012, The Aspen Institute Germany entered into a
media partnership with Deutschlandradio Kultur (the
former Radio im amerikanischen Sektor), which will
continue in 2013. Deutschlandradio Kultur journalists
moderated the majority of the 2012 Public Program
events described below. Thereafter the microphones were
turned off and Friends of the Aspen Institute and guests
were able to participate in a frank, off-the-record question and answer session with the speakers. The moderated discussion was recorded and rebroadcast nationwide
throughout Germany. In this manner, The Aspen Institute
Germany seeks to reach a broader national audience in
Germany with topics and speakers that might not normally be encountered on Deutschlandradio Kultur’s
airwaves. The discussions can be listened to in German
online either at
→ www.dradio.de or at → www.aspeninstitute.de
Dr. Guido Westerwelle & Dr. János Martonyi
panel Discussion
southeast europe Foreign
Ministers’ Conference V
november 23, 2012
On November 23, 2012, The Aspen Institute Germany
convened the fifth Southeast Europe Foreign Ministers’
conference in the Embassy of the Republic of Hungary
in Berlin. It assembled, besides the German and Hungarian Ministers of Foreign Affairs, all of their colleagues
from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo,
Macedonia, and Montenegro, while Serbia was represented by the Assistant Minister for Defense and Security
Policy, Turkey was represented by its Deputy Undersecretary for European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, and the USA was represented by a Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs. H.E.
József Czukor, the host, set the tone in praising the meeting of eight Foreign Ministers under the auspices of the
Aspen Institute Germany as a gathering of friends committed to the continued enlargement of the European
Union. Following the foreign ministers’ panel discussion,
leading economic experts on Southeast Europe discussed
Regional Cooperation and Economic Opportunities for
Development in Southeast Europe. Chaired by Helge
Tolksdorf, Director EU Enlargement, Southeast Europe
and Turkey, Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Balázs Békeffy, President of the Management
Board, OTB Bank, Croatia, Dr. Joachim Haas, Vice President International Regulatory Affairs, Deutsche Telekom
AG, Szabolcs Horváth CEO, CKB Bank, Montenegro,
Prof. Dr. Rainer Lindner, Executive Director, Committee
on Eastern European Economic Relations, Péter
Lörincze, Vice President International Affairs, TriGranit,
Hungary, Szabolcz Ferencz, Senior Vice President of
Corporate Affairs, MOL Group, shared their views and
experiences in the region.
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november 6-7, 2012
Women’s Quota as a Universal Remedy –
Fact or Alibi?
november 22, 2012
A quota for women in European boardrooms only makes
sense if women considered for such positions have the
necessary qualifications and experience, i.e. line profit
and loss responsibility. A quota system cannot solve the
absence of such qualifications. Instead, the causes of
women’s dropping out of the work force for longer periods than men must be more directly addressed, perhaps
via equal pay legislation. The need to move women out
of traditional female jobs and make those positions more
attractive to men is equally important. The Eurocrisis has
hardly had any effect on the communications sector, as
most of its infrastructure costs are already sunk. The
financial costs of the crisis to Vodafone, while not inconsiderable, are therefore marginal. The key issues that the
company faces are how to maintain its existing infrastructure and choosing and implementing innovations
that will drive future revenue.
More than four hundred guests accepted the invitation of
the Aspen Institute and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung to
discuss, celebrate, and follow the U.S. presidential election at an event organized by Odewald Network
Communication at the Allianz Stiftungsforum, next to the
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Covered by television,
radio, and social media, the event attracted guests from
politics, the economy, and culture. In addition to a festive
reception and interesting discussions between the guests,
the highlights were four panel discussions about the U.S.
presidential election with the former senior U.S. officials
(Charles M. Ludolph, Walter B. Slocombe, Richard V.
Allen, and James P. Cain) and prominent German politicians and journalists (Prof. Horst Teltschik, Prof. Michael
Stürmer, Philipp Mißfelder, and Harald Leibrecht inter
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Dr. Guido Westerwelle
in Conversation with Dr. Rafael Seligmann
Dr. Klaus-peter Müller
Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Commerzbank
German Interests in the 21st Century
september 12, 2012
Banks, Money, and Gambling:
Lessons Learned from the past Years
June 28, 2012
Aircraft are where Dr. Westerwelle finds time for reflection. His official travel has taught him that Europe no
longer is the center of the universe. While Europe had
acquitted itself well in the recent economic crisis, the
U.S. was still a cause for concern of the German Federal
Foreign Minister. Germany’s strategic interests were said
to lie in promoting peace, forging relations with new
power centers, and maintaining good relations with existing great powers. A greater focus on reconciliation and
reintegration was required in Afghanistan. Meanwhile,
stronger economic pressure on Iran would make clear
that the international community will not accept a
nuclear-armed Iran. Westerwelle believed that Iranian
leaders were amenable to Western logic. EU accession
candidates, such as Turkey, were said to need clear and
objective accession standards from Brussels. It had taken
some time, but China was now beginning to listen to and
engage German representatives over their concerns about
human rights in the People’s Republic. Dr. Westerwelle
manages to persevere in the face of sometimes overly
harsh domestic criticism thanks largely to the fact that
he is basically an optimist. Westerwelle wishes however
that Germans would not confuse an upbeat attitude with
a lack of seriousness, or vice versa.
Nobody could have anticipated the consequences of the
U.S. subprime debt crisis. Meanwhile, Europe’s finances
continue to be burdened by a market that is unwilling to
accept the necessity of higher minimum levels of equity
capitalization for financial institutions. Germany alone
cannot change the global financial system. As a result,
cooperation with the U.S. and UK is needed in order to
effect systemic changes. Long-term solutions will be
needed in order to resolve the crisis. As currently conceived, “Eurobonds” are not the solution, as they represent a better deal for borrowers than for creditors. Greeks
at some point will need to decide whether they want to
stay in the Eurozone or not. Similarly, the German
electorate has to be willing to surrender some of its
privileges, if the issue of total German indebtedness is to
be resolved.
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Dr. Jim Thomson
President Emeritus, RAND Corporation
prof. Giulio Tremonti
Former Minister of Finance, Republic of Italy
prospects for the U.s. political system
June 11, 2012
european solidarity, Finance, and economic
policy
May 31, 2012
Aspen Institute Germany Executive Director, Charles
King Mallory IV, hosted a small dinner for fourteen
guests from the diplomatic community and Friends of the
Aspen Institute in honor of Jim Thomson, President
Emeritus of the RAND Corporation. Thomson shared the
results of his research on the polarization of U.S. political life. Thomson’s conclusion: matters will not improve.
A structural change in U.S. politics had taken place. This
somewhat less than optimistic ending note proved the
starting point for a positive, lively, and engaged ensuing
discussion.
Globalization is an inevitable but essentially positive
process that has unfortunately occurred too quickly. Due
to its solid industrial base and high level of savings, Italy
is on a sound footing. Germans, in fact, should ask themselves where they intend to sell their exports if they
assume a position of benign neglect towards their European partners. The Monti government should focus on
spending cuts rather than on raising taxes. One problem
with the current crisis is that Europe’s founding agreements were not conceived with crisis management in
mind. “Eurobonds” will come, but simply at a later point
in time. What is needed now is more Europe, not less.
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Principal, Catenion GmbH
Arno Heuermann,
Chief Operating Officer, Catenion GmbH
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evans Revere
Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State
north Korea and security in northeast Asia
April 2, 2012
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (“DPRK” or
“North Korea”) is a self-contained system that has its
own ways. Indeed, there is continuity between the
regimes of Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Eun inasmuch as
North Korea continues to need to demonstrate its power
to the outside world in order to hide its inner weakness.
The impending “satellite” launch was a breach both of
the February 29, 2012 “Leap Day Agreement” between
the DPRK and USA, but also of numerous United
Nations Security Council resolutions. The same rockets
as were being tested for satellite launch could be used to
deliver nuclear weapons to their target. The international
community needed to warn the DPRK of the consequences of the “satellite” launch and prepare to implement further sanctions against Pyongyang. At a recent
Aspen Germany Track II conference between the DPRK
and the USA, Pyongyang had threatened to respond powerfully to any additional sanctions that might be imposed
by the international community. It was essential that both
China and Russia use their influence with the DPRK to
forestall the impending crisis.
najmuddin shaykh
Former Foreign Secretary, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Afghanistan Beyond 2014:
prospects and Challenges
January 12, 2012
It is in Pakistan’s interests to have stable neighbors. However, Afghanistan has been at war for thirty-eight years.
Although he hopes for the best, Ambassador Shaykh is
pessimistic. Peace post the 2014 withdrawal of coalition
forces from Afghanistan will depend largely on whether
a deal can be struck between the Taliban and Afghan warlords. This in turn depends on the outcome of the Afghan
national reconciliation and reintegration process. The
withdrawal of foreign troops threatens recession and
unemployment in Afghanistan and a consequent growth
in the numbers of the over five million Afghan refugees
currently located in Pakistan.
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eckart von Klaeden
Minister of State in the German Federal Chancellery
Danny Ayalon
Deputy Foreign Minister of the State of Israel
perspectives, Chances, and Challenges
for the Transatlantic Relationship
november 30, 2011
October 24, 2011
Germany’s primary national interests are to preserve the
transatlantic security architecture from which it benefits,
create a unified Europe and secure Israel’s right to exist.
Our shared values of democracy and human rights are
the common denominator. Although the U.S. and German economies are heavily interconnected, there is a lack
of interest in the other country among the general public
on both sides of the Atlantic. Germany is no longer
dependent on the U.S. and the U.S. is in the process of
shedding international responsibilities onto others—
including Germany. However, the war on terror cannot
be fought alone and a number of other common challenges also remain: cyber-warfare; failing states; famine;
the peace process; mitigating the financial crisis and the
Iranian nuclear program. With respect to Iran we would
all benefit if the U.S. focused on reaching a diplomatic
solution without even mentioning the prospect of
attempting a military one.
The Aspen Institute Germany hosted an intimate luncheon for a delegation visiting Berlin from the Israeli
Ministry of Foreign Affairs that was headed by the
Director General of the ministry, Danny Ayalon. Select
Friends of the Aspen Institute and German political and
diplomatic leaders discussed the state of negotiations
with Iran, the implications of the “Arab Spring,” the
forthcoming elections in Egypt and the state of the peace
process over the course of one and a half hours at the
China Club Berlin.
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Klaus schäfer
CEO, E.ON Ruhrgas AG & E.ON Energy Trading SE
Ulrich sahm
Journalist
The potential of and the Outlook
for the natural Gas Market
October 20, 2011
The Middle east in Turmoil –
Israel in the eye of the storm
July 11, 2011
When combined with shale gas, there is sufficient natural
gas to supply world demand for the next two hundred and
fifty years. When used together with steam and gas
plants, natural gas offers a low-CO2 and highly efficient
technology that currently accounts for twenty percent of
all German energy consumption. Growing demand in
emerging markets is the driver behind the global hunger
for natural gas. In the future, surplus heat won through
solar and wind power could be converted to methane and
introduced into the natural gas network. To date, however, price signals are not strong enough for this
technology to have gained market acceptance and it still
remains a rather expensive investment.
The Aspen Institute Germany hosted a book presentation
at the China Club Berlin by Ulrich Sahm, a German
journalist and author who has settled in Israel. In the
course of a lively discussion, with 30-40 Friends of the
Aspen Institute on the balmy terrace of the China Club
Berlin, participants engaged in a tour d’horizon of
current, topical issues in the Middle East. A festive
atmosphere prevailed and the event continued late into
the evening.
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shaul Mofaz
Chairman, Foreign and Security Policy Committee
René Obermann
CEO, Deutsche Telekom AG
Knesset of the state of Israel
July 7, 2011
experience, What Connects Us –
Communication within a Gigabyte-society
June 30, 2011
The Aspen Institute Germany hosted a visiting multiparty delegation of members of the Foreign- and
Security-Policy Committee of the Israeli Knesset. The
delegation was headed by the committee’s then chairman
(he subsequently became Deputy Prime Minister of
Israel) Lieutenant General (retired) Shaul Mofaz. Cocktails with the U.S. ambassador on the roof terrace of the
China Club Berlin, overlooking the Brandenburg Gate
and the Reichstag were followed by lunch with Friends
of the Aspen Institute, leading German politicians,
decision makers, journalists and the diplomatic corps.
General Mofaz presented his thoughts on how to
relaunch the peace process between Israelis and
Palestinians.
In today’s Gigabyte Society, everybody has access to
digital products and the Internet wherever they go. There
is 96% Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) penetration in
Germany today. Obermann is convinced that the tablet
will eventually replace the personal computer. Obermann
also predicts further rapid growth in data flows via so
called “data highways.” The digitalization of products
and services is what is driving volume growth. Over
840,000 people work for the communications and IT
sector in Germany, making it the second largest industrial
sector in the country after mechanical engineering. But
the sector suffers from a dearth of skilled labor and
security. Unless the latter problem is tackled in a systematic fashion, via a public-private partnership, the general
public will lose confidence in the Internet.
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Jean pisani-Ferry
Director, Bruegel Institute
Robert von Rimscha & Dr. Ulrich schlie
Heads, Policy Planning, German Federal Foreign Office
German Federal Ministry of Defense
The Impending sovereign Debt Crisis.
Comparing U.s. and european Approaches
June 8, 2011
A Tour d’Horizon of the German Foreign
and security policy
May 9, 2011
When comparing the United States with the European
Union financially, the question arises: Which entity is in
worse shape? Overall, Mr. Pisani-Ferry believes that the
EU has constantly done better than the U.S. The focus on
fiscal consolidation in the U.S. only started in 2009.
There is no bi-partisan consensus on the need for a
solution, only a war of attrition between Democrats and
Republicans. With regard to the market, the U.S. has been
cutting employment and the EU has been cutting productivity. As a result there is no jobless recovery in Europe,
whereas the United States has suffered a permanent loss
of output.
The German Federal Foreign Office’s Policy Planning
Staff is responsible for strategic communication and development. New trends are identified in order to permit
the Foreign Office best to position itself. The Policy
Planning Staff of the German Federal Ministry of
Defense, on the other hand, is the controlling body for
the German armed forces. While the motivations behind
the “Arab Spring” were said to have been largely ideological, the emergence of the “Responsibility to Protect”
in Libya represented substantial progress in international
law, regardless of the position that Germany adopted
towards intervention in Libya at the United Nations
Security Council. Germany’s desire to become a permanent member of the Security Council had to be evaluated
in the light of persistent criticism of Germany on the part
of the international community for the lack of pragmatism and realism in its conduct of foreign policy.
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François Heisbourg
Chairman of the Council,
International Institute for Strategic Studies
János Martonyi
Foreign Minister, Republic of Hungary
Is There A Future for the Common Foreign &
security policy?
April 28, 2011
The Hungarian eU presidency:
Taking stock
April 4, 2011
François Heisbourg, Chairman of the Council of the
London-based International Institute for Strategic
Studies, gave a frank and direct assessment of the effectiveness of the European Union’s Common Foreign and
Security Policy to the Friends of the Aspen Institute and
various guests from the Berlin diplomatic circuit, including the German Federal Foreign Minister’s Chief of Staff.
During its EU Presidency, Hungary has faced complex
challenges: the international financial crisis had forced
the EU to redefine its modalities of economic cooperation, but the EU now had a real chance to reemerge from
the crisis as an economic power; the tsunami and accompanying Japanese nuclear crisis had been a profound
shock, particularly to energy markets; and the “Arab
Spring” had underlined the global yearning for freedom
and fundamental rights. For its part, where it could be
proactive, Hungary saw the Western Balkans, particularly their integration, democratization, and EU and
NATO membership as the priority of its EU Presidency.
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John Fund
The Wall Street Journal
Yoram Ben-Zeev
Ambassador of the State of Israel to the Federal
Republic of Germany
Handicapping the 2012 U.s. presidential
elections
March 22, 2011
Overview of the security situation in the
Middle east
March 14, 2011
With an approval rating of 46-47%, President Obama is
still popular, despite a tanking economy. Rahm
Emmanuel had used the administration’s first two years
to ram through Obamacare and questionable policies
favoring national environmental champions, some of
which subsequently went bankrupt at great expense to
the taxpayer. The country was currently waging three
wars simultaneously, if Libya was included. So who will
win the next U.S. presidential election? Although Obama
will be their candidate, the Democrats traditionally take
a “blind date” approach to candidate selection. The
Republicans tow slavishly and unnecessarily to the principle of seniority. Romney is the strongest Republican
contender, but Barbour is strong in the South. Pawlenty
comes a close third. Palin is popular, but not running,
while Bachmann is a mini-Palin with a law degree.
Huckabee and Santorum are both popular as well.
Trump, Bolton and Gingrich were largely in the race for
their egos and book sales. The most important issue for
the race remains the economy.
What has changed in the Middle East? People no longer
fear their regimes. Social media are a key reason. But can
social media develop leaders, as opposed to simply mobilizing the masses? The writing was on the wall that
such change was on its way in the region. A new culture
of protest has developed; it doesn’t necessarily demand
regime change, but rather fundamental structural
reforms. Israel or Turkey could become models for the
region in this connection. The process will take time.
Democratic elections are key, but establishing open
societies is more important. Anti-democratic actors
should be excluded from the political process.
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Adam posen
Member, Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England
The Future of the euro
January 31, 2011
Europe is divided between high savers, such as Germany,
and big spenders, such as Greece. There are certain countries that ex ante do not belong in the Eurozone. The
Greek crisis was inevitable as the country had been living
beyond its means for several years. The idea behind monetary union was to force states to balance their budgets,
allowing them to move to core Europe’s “high saver”
status and benefit from it—the idea was a failure. Price
stability has been achieved and Europe has greater influence in foreign exchange markets. However, in order to
resolve the crisis, toxic credits on the periphery have to
be addressed. Even the German system—particularly the
Landesbanken—shows weakness. The fundamental
question is whether Germany will accept financial losses
in order to save the European periphery. Fundamentally,
Posen was optimistic, as long as Spain and Italy did not
get drawn into the crisis. Should a state exit the Euro,
Posen foresaw great damage.
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Dr. Corinne Michaela Flick,
Trustee (Chairman),
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Matthias Dornfeldt | Senior
Juliane Kabus | Program Assis-
Program Officer 2008-2011–
Mr. Dornfeldt was responsible
for Aspen’s Leadership Program.
Before joining Aspen, Mr. Dornfeldt was a Program Director at
the Berlin office of the Körber
Foundation (2007), and a research fellow at the Technical University Mining Academy, Freiberg (2008). He previously worked for the
United Nations, the Council of Europe, the OSCE and
the German Federal Foreign Office. Mr. Dornfeldt is also
a visiting lecturer at the Free University Berlin and the
University of Potsdam. Mr. Dornfeldt received his masters degree from the University of Potsdam where he
studied political science with a focus on international
relations. He is currently working on his dissertation on
German energy relations with Norway and the
USSR/Russian Federation
tant – Ms. Kabus joined Aspen in
April 2012 as a Program Assistant in Aspen's Policy Program.
She holds a BA in Politics, Public Administration and Sociology
from the University of Potsdam
and is currently pursuing her
Master's degree in Political Science with a focus on
International Politics, Political Theory and Military Studies. Before starting at Aspen, she gained experience in
the working group on Foreign Affairs of the CDU/CSU
parliamentary group at the German Bundestag.
Valeska esch | Senior Program
Officer – Ms. Esch joined Aspen
in February 2009 and is responsible for Aspen’s Policy Program
on Southeast Europe. She holds
an MA in Political Science, International and European Law,
and English Language and Literature with a focus on Security Politics, the European
Union, and Southeast Europe, for which she studied at
the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and
the University of Birmingham. Ms. Esch has published
on the EU’s engagement in Kosovo. Prior to joining
Aspen, she worked for an event management firm in
Bonn.
Lena Kiesewetter | Program
Officer – Lena Kiesewetter
joined the Aspen Institute Germany as a Program Officer in
September 2012, organizing the
Public Program, managing the
Friends of the Aspen Institute
and board relations, and assisting
the Executive Director. She studied political science and
civil war studies at the universities of Freiburg im Breisgau, Oslo, Toronto, and at ETH Zurich, where she graduated with a Master of Arts. Before joining the Aspen
Institute, she interned at the German Embassy in Oslo
and conducted field research on human rights activism
in Bosnia & Herzegovina for the Swedish NGO Civil
Rights Defenders. She has previously worked in the
fields of research, university administration, and adult
education.
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Cornelia von Rundstedt | Pro-
tant 2010-2011– In 2009 Patryk
Kitson graduated in Political
Science, Modern History and
History of Art at the FriedrichWilhelm University Bonn, focusing his studies on U.S., EU
and Russian Foreign and Security Policy, International Relations Theories and Global
Economic Policy. The topic of his M.A. thesis was USA,
Russia and the Balkans: Analysis of U.S. and Russian
Balkan Policy from the Dissolution of Yugoslavia till
Dayton. In late 2010 he joined the Aspen Institute
Germany. Working as a Program Assistant, he helped
organize the regular Public Program events. Moreover,
he helped organize the Leadership Conference on Balkan
security architecture in December 2010 and the Track II
U.S.-DPRK Dialogue on the denuclearization of the
Korean peninsula in March 2011.
gram Officer – Cornelia von
Rundstedt started at the Aspen
Institute Germany as a Leadership Program Officer in December 2012. Following an
education in Antique Furniture
Restoration she studied Art History at the Universities Bonn and Rome and completed
her M.A. in 2006. After graduating she worked at the Department for European Decorative Art of Van Ham Fine
Art Auctions in Cologne. In 2008 she joined a leading
German consultancy for integrated personnel management in Düsseldorf, where she was significantly involved
in the establishment and the project management of the
training and seminar section. In 2009 she relocated to the
Berlin office where she since has been in charge of the
new business unit for the consulting of students and
young professionals concerning their career planning.
pia von Oppen | Program Offi-
Mary von schulthess | Pro-
cer 2010-2012 – Pia von Oppen
joined the Aspen Institute
Germany in November 2010 as
Program Assistant. She was responsible for the Friends of the
Aspen Institute and organized
the Public Program of Events. In
addition to her other duties, as Assistant to the Director,
she was responsible for board relations. In 2009 she completed her B.A. with honors, majoring in International
Relations with a minor in History, at Webster University,
Vienna. After her studies she worked for the Press and
Public Information Section of the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
gram Officer 2011-2013 – Mary
von Schulthess joined the Aspen
Institute Germany as a Leadership Program Officer in April
2011, successfully launching
The Aspen Seminar. She completed her M.A. in Art History at
the Courtauld Institute, London, where she focused on
traces of resistance in German art before and during
World War II. She then joined Stylepark AG as assistant
to the board, where she guest managed The Design
Annual and was in charge of the supporting program.
Following her experience with Stylepark AG, she became
assistant to the CEO of an agricultural enterprise in
southern Germany, where she concentrated on developing future strategies for a traditional agricultural holding
company consisting of a winery, fruit plantations, forest
and real estate.
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Wittmann I Senior Fellow Brigadier General (ret.) Dr.
Klaus Wittmann retired from the
Bundeswehr in 2008 after 42
years of service that included
battalion and brigade command,
academic phases at Hamburg
university and at the International Institute for Strategic
Studies, London, military policy assignments in the Ministry of Defence, Bonn, and at NATO Headquarters,
Brussels, as well as higher officer education at the
Führungsakade-mie and the NATO Defense College,
Rome, where he concluded his career as Director
Academic Planning and Policy. He is a security policy
and NATO expert, has lectured and published widely on
history, strategy and arms control topics and teaches at
Potsdam University. Since 2011 he has been supporting
Aspen Germany as a Senior Fellow.
Klaus
Wittmann
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